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A Companion to Late Antiquity

Copyright © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Late Antiquity

Editor(s): Philip Rousseau

Published Online: 9 MAR 2009

Print ISBN: 9781405119801

Online ISBN: 9781444306101

DOI: 10.1002/9781444306101

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An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity.

  • Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity - from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean
  • Comprises 39 essays from some of the world's foremost scholars of the era
  • Presents this once-neglected period as an age of powerful transformation that shaped the modern world
  • Emphasizes the central importance of religion and its connection with economic, social, and political life
  • Winner of the 2009 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xxiv)

    1. Chapter 1

      Approaching Late Antiquity (pages 1–13)

      Wendy Mayer

  3. Part I: The View from the Future

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      Part Introduction (pages 15–16)

    2. Chapter 2

      The Byzantine Late Antiquity (pages 17–28)

      Stratis Papaioannou

    3. Chapter 3

      Late Antiquity in the Medieval West (pages 29–42)

      Conrad Leyser

    4. Chapter 4

      Cities of the Mind: Renaissance Views of Early Christian Culture and the End of Antiquity (pages 43–58)

      Mark Vessey

    5. Chapter 5

      Narrating Decline and Fall (pages 59–76)

      Clifford Ando

    6. Chapter 6

      Late Antiquity in Modern Eyes (pages 77–92)

      Stefan Rebenich

  4. Part II: Land and People

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      Part Introduction (pages 93–96)

    2. Chapter 7

      The Shapes and Shaping of the Late Antique World: Global and Local Perspectives (pages 97–109)

      Mark Humphries

    3. Chapter 8

      Mobility and the Traces of Empire (pages 110–124)

      Blake Leyerle

    4. Chapter 9

      Information and Political Power (pages 125–138)

      Claire Sotinel

    5. Chapter 10

      Mediterranean Cities (pages 139–155)

      S. T. Loseby

    6. Chapter 11

      The Archaeological Record: Problems of Interpretation (pages 156–169)

      Olof Brandt

    7. Chapter 12

      Inscribing Identity: The Latin Epigraphic Habit in Late Antiquity (pages 170–186)

      Dennis E. Trout

    8. Chapter 13

      Gender and the Fall of Rome (pages 187–200)

      Kate Cooper

    9. Chapter 14

      Marriage and Family Relationships in the Late Roman West (pages 201–219)

      Judith Evans-Grubbs

    10. Chapter 15

      The Church, the Living, and the Dead (pages 220–230)

      Éric Rebillard

  5. Part III: Image and Word

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      Part Introduction (pages 231–232)

    2. Chapter 16

      The Value of a Good Education: Libanius and Public Authority (pages 233–245)

      Raffaella Cribiore

    3. Chapter 17

      Textual Communities in Late Antique Christianity (pages 246–257)

      Kim Haines-Eitzen

    4. Chapter 18

      Exegesis without End: Forms, Methods, and Functions of Biblical Commentaries (pages 258–269)

      Karla Pollmann

    5. Chapter 19

      Tradition, Innovation, and Epistolary Mores (pages 270–284)

      Jennifer Ebbeler

    6. Chapter 20

      Visual and Verbal Representation: Image, Text, Person, and Power (pages 285–305)

      James A. Francis

    7. Chapter 21

      Christianity and the Transformation of Classical Art (pages 306–326)

      Felicity Harley

    8. Chapter 22

      The Discourse of Later Latin (pages 327–341)

      Philip Burton

    9. Chapter 23

      Language and Culture in Late Antique Egypt (pages 342–356)

      Malcolm Choat

    10. Chapter 24

      Late Antique Historiography: A Brief History of Time (pages 357–371)

      David Woods

  6. Part IV: Empire, Kingdom, and Beyond

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      Part Introduction (pages 373–375)

    2. Chapter 25

      Law in Practice (pages 377–391)

      Caroline Humfress

    3. Chapter 26

      The Mirror of Jordanes: Concepts of the Barbarian, Then and Now (pages 392–408)

      Andrew Gillett

    4. Chapter 27

      Beyond the Northern Frontiers (pages 409–425)

      Guy Halsall

    5. Chapter 28

      From Empire to Kingdoms in the Late Antique West (pages 426–440)

      John Vanderspoel

    6. Chapter 29

      Rome and the Sasanid Empire: Confrontation and Coexistence (pages 441–454)

      Jan Willem Drijvers

    7. Chapter 30

      Syria, Syriac, Syrian: Negotiating East and West (pages 455–466)

      Christine Shepardson

    8. Chapter 31

      Syria and the Arabs (pages 467–478)

      David Cook

    9. Chapter 32

      The Early Caliphate and the Inheritance of Late Antiquity (c. AD 610–c. AD 750) (pages 479–492)

      Andrew Marsham

  7. Part V: The Sacred

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      Part Introduction (pages 493–496)

    2. Chapter 33

      Christianization, Secularization, and the Transformation of Public Life (pages 497–511)

      Richard Lim

    3. Chapter 34

      The Political Church: Religion and the State (pages 512–524)

      Michael Gaddis

    4. Chapter 35

      The Late Antique Bishop: Image and Reality (pages 525–538)

      Rita Lizzi Testa

    5. Chapter 36

      The Conduct of Theology and the ‘Fathers’ of the Church (pages 539–555)

      Thomas Graumann

    6. Chapter 37

      Defining Sacred Boundaries: Jewish–Christian Relations (pages 556–571)

      Naomi Koltun-Fromm

    7. Chapter 38

      Pagans in a Christian Empire (pages 572–587)

      Neil McLynn

    8. Chapter 39

      ‘Not of This World’: The Invention of Monasticism (pages 588–600)

      Daniel F. Caner

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      Bibliography (pages 601–699)

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      Index (pages 700–709)

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